The Racial Impacts of Increased Criminal Immigration Prosecutions
Attorney General Sessions
As Attorney General Jeff Sessions has instructed U.S. Attorneys to step up criminal immigration prosecutions, Kelly Hernandez of UCLA on The Conversation tells the story of how Congress made it a crime to cross the border decades ago. “Congress,” she writes, “first invented the crimes of unlawful entry and reentry with the purpose of criminalizing and imprisoning Mexican immigrants and it has delivered on that intent since 1929.”
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